
Over the course of a midsummer night in Fermanagh in 1890, an unsettled daughter of the Anglo-Irish aristocracy encourages her father's valet to seduce her.... (Full plot summary below)
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Over the course of a midsummer night in Fermanagh in 1890, an unsettled daughter of the Anglo-Irish aristocracy encourages her father's valet to seduce her.
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| New York TimesStephen HoldenAside from the change of setting, Ms. Ullmann’s version is quite orthodox. Much more convincing than Mike Figgis’s 1999 screen adaptation, starring Saffron Burrows, it is a grueling slog through a hell of torment, cruelty and suffering. |
| Slant MagazineSteve MacfarlaneThe film is no tearjerker, but it makes the stage play's hidebound, soul-baring pleasures mesmerizing on screen, and without copping to reductivism. |
| The Film StageSky HirschkronIn this overly literal adaptation, we know invisible forces are at work only when characters directly address their presence. |
| What She SaidAnne BrodieStrindberg's searing insight into human nature is at the root of the film's power. Familiar and recognisable behaviours and illuminating truths, often painful, open our eyes to our frailty and greed. |
| RogerEbert.comSheila O'MalleyMiss Julie is a rather strange experience, with its consistently static medium shots of the three actors, as they roar their lines at one another. But it has an undeniable power. |
| Thompson on HollywoodRyan LattanzioChastain's electrifying performance places among the great female dramatic turns in a literary tragedy, from Nina Pens Rode in 'Gertrud' to Nastassja Kinski in 'Tess' and Isabelle Huppert in 'Madame Bovary.' |
| Film Journal InternationalDavid NohClaustrophobic, basically unexciting and heavy-handed. |
| Blu-ray.comBrian OrndorfThrillingly raw and ghoulish, making the most out of minimal cinematic ingredients with rare emphasis on pure human explosion. |
| The PlaylistNikola GrozdanovicUllmann’s version of Miss Julie exists in a special cinematic category; it’s toxic, it’s hypnotic, and passionately translates Strindberg’s genius instinct for enlightening the multi-layered psychological spectrums of human desire for lust and power. It’s unforgettable in every sense of the word. |
| Toronto SunLiz BraunAnyone interested in spellbinding performances, however, should see Miss Julie. |